CONTENTS

PROLOGUE: MAPPING THE LOSS

1 WILLIAM CLARK’S MAP

2 WAR TO THE ROPE

3 NO RIGHTS THE WHITE MAN IS BOUND TO RESPECT

4 EMPIRE AND THE LIMITS OF REVOLUTION

5 BLACK RECONSTRUCTION AND THE COUNTERREVOLUTION OF PROPERTY

6 THE BABYLON OF THE NEW WORLD

7 THE SHAPE OF FEAR

8 NOT POOR, JUST BROKE

9 “BLACK REMOVAL BY WHITE APPROVAL”

10 DEFENSIBLE SPACE

EPILOGUE: THE RIGHT PLACE FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY WALTER JOHNSON

PRAISE FOR THE BROKEN HEART OF AMERICA